28 Quotes by Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.